107 - How I'm Simplifying My Work This Year
Work and Play with Nancy Ray
Nancy Ray
4.8 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In a lot of ways my work has really been simplified for me—I'm going on eight months of no childcare other than the two days that my kids are at preschool and kindergarten. I have been forced to be really strategic and simplified with my time and my plans.
Today, I'm going to share ways that I took things off of my plate, got organized and really simplified my work and my goals this year, and moving forward.
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| 0:00.0 | In a lot of ways, my work has really been simplified for me. I'm going on eight months of no |
| 0:05.9 | child care other than the two days that my kids are at preschool and kindergarten, and I have been |
| 0:10.8 | forced to be really strategic and simplified with my time and my plans. Today, I'm going to share |
| 0:18.6 | ways that I took things off of my plate, got organized, and really |
| 0:23.3 | simplified my work and my goals this year and moving forward. |
| 0:32.5 | You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 107. |
| 0:40.3 | Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play with Nancy Ray episode 107 much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories work and play simply put that is where our life and our legacy take place this is a |
| 0:47.0 | podcast all about learning to work and play well which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling |
| 0:52.2 | life let's get to it. So I'm going to separate this podcast |
| 1:01.2 | episode into a couple of categories. First, my goals, how I have streamlined and simplified |
| 1:08.2 | and simplified my work goals this year. Second, my tools, the tools that I use |
| 1:12.6 | as I work, I've really kind of paired down on those tools and chosen only the ones that I use all the |
| 1:18.3 | time. And lastly, my time, what I do with the limited amount of time that I have. So the first way |
| 1:26.5 | I've simplified my work this year is through my goals. |
| 1:29.9 | Now, this is nothing new for me. I have been using this method and model for years, but I will say |
| 1:37.3 | that I just have been doing less this year and it feels really good. I've just simply been making less |
| 1:42.8 | work goals or things that I feel like are really |
| 1:45.6 | attainable in my season of life. So the model that I use is called the EOS model, the entrepreneurial |
| 1:51.0 | operating system. It's from the book Traction by Gina Wickman. I did a whole episode about this book |
| 1:57.7 | because I love it so much. You can go back and listen to episode 26, |
| 2:07.2 | which is my favorite business book of all time and learn about how traction works. But what I want to focus on today is how to set goals within the traction model. They encourage you to lay out a one-year |
| 2:13.5 | plan. What are your one-year goals in your work and your business? And then divide those up into |
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